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That could help, no question about it, but since yesterday US Catholics have been attacking @pontifex Francis ONCE again without even considering issues like his own pastoral experience. He is not Ratzinger. He has not been his whole life secluded in the Vatican or similar places https://twitter.com/JessererSmith/status/1285640717604401152
And the fact that for many of us here in Latin America, the part of the world of which US Catholics almost never care about (with few and notorious exemptions), do perceive in yesterday's document a different understanding of the duties of the Church here and elsewhere.
Yesterday's document is important for many parishes and dioceses still trapped in the Wojtyla-Ratzinger era of hyperconcern for sexual morals and dismissiveness towards the poor and other systematically excluded here in LatAm and elsewhere.
When I read that document I read a follow up of documents of the Catholic bishops in Latin America from the 1960s and 1970s. Perhaps you do not like the language because it reflects that experience, but for me it is a good proposal...
...a good proposal to reshape parishes and dioceses here in this part of the world where @pontifex Francis's sensibilities were trained. And yes, we need more participation from the laity, & I would be very happy to get a #SynodaleWeg the way the Germans have but I am not naïve.
What I do not know is why, all of the sudden, many US Catholics want also a #SynodaleWeg when they were EXTREMELY happy with the absurdities of the Wojtyla-Ratzinger era. That really strikes me as odd...
You are missing, as one of many issues, @pontifex Francis call to make access to sacraments free, that is a huge change, and it is a good change, given the way many here in Latin America think there should always be a payment, @JessererSmith and that is a reflection of...
...of the Pope's personal experience as priest and bishop and of his personal involvement with the slum-priests of Buenos Aires, and how he has been fighting there, no need to mimic the Protestant folk, to keep the faith alive.
